This one always seemed like a small theater, and despite being small it has multiple screens, its one of the few of the original theaters in the area that is still around and hasn’t changed that much over the years.

The newspaper has the new Star Wars cartoon advertised as playing here in the IMAX format. Does this theater have the capabilty of doing that now. I also notice that though the Dark Knight made 26 million last weekend it is no longer here, nor in Sunnyside or the Flushing Main Street. Why would they all drop a still potent box office film?

Movieworld to return
BY VICTOR G. MIMONI
Wednesday, June 25, 2008 8:00 PM EDT
To those moviegoers who were shocked when the Movieworld multiplex theater in the Douglaston Plaza shopping center abruptly closed – fear not, your summer is saved.

The seven-screen picture palace has scheduled its grand re-opening for Friday, June 27, managed by an independent partnership of local entrepreneurs, according to partner Mark Serale. â€œWeâ€™ll be showing a variety of films for kids and adults,â€ Serale said.

Their opening bill includes the new Disney film â€œWall-eâ€ on two screens, along with summer fare from kid-friendly â€œKung Fu Panda,â€ and comedy â€œGet Smartâ€ to explosive thrillers â€œThe Hulkâ€ and â€œWantedâ€ to â€œSex and the City.â€

â€œWe only signed the lease about three weeks ago,â€ said Serale. â€œWeâ€™ve put a state-of-the-art digital sound system in all seven theaters, and all new seats in three of them,â€ he said, adding, â€œThe others will be getting new seating soon.â€

The group had sought to take over the theater when the previous operator â€œwalked away,â€ almost three months ago, according to Serale, but were rebuffed at first. â€œThe landlord called us back about a month ago saying it was available, so we took it.â€

In order to get back into operation as soon as possible, management concentrated on sprucing up and put in a whole new â€œcaf/â€ service bar.

â€œWeâ€™ll be serving premium Italian ices, gelati, ice cream and pastries under the â€˜Dâ€™Angeloâ€™s of N.Y.C.â€™ label,â€ said partner Sal Corrente. â€œThese are family recipes being made here in the city,â€ he said. â€œYou can make an evening of it or even book a party, right here.â€

Managing partner Jay Levinson already operates a movie theater on Long Island. â€œWe grew up in Roslyn,â€ said his brother Stuart, also a partner, â€œWe love this location – itâ€™s like our back yard.â€

Serale, who grew up in Fresh Meadows, expressed excitement at the chance to offer Queens some of whatâ€™s been missing in film entertainment.

â€œWe have several ideas, such as morning shows for moms, where they can bring their stroller right into the theater,â€ he said, adding. â€œThey deserve the break.â€

â€œWe also want to have something of an â€˜art houseâ€™ here, showing films that youâ€™d otherwise have to go to Manhattan to see,â€ he said.

Among their ideas, management wants to bring back â€œclassic 70 millimeter films in stereo,â€ like â€œLawrence of Arabiaâ€ and â€œWest Side Story,â€ and would â€œlove to have midnight showings of cult films.â€

Serale admits that some of their planned innovations, like digital projection to match the digital audio, will have to wait until after the summer movie season, or, like late night showings, would involve negotiations.

â€œWe signed a long lease and weâ€™re in it for the long haul,â€ he promised.

Didn’t Movieworld play The Queen, There Will Be Blood, Bride and Prejudice and a few other films that didn’t play say a 1000 theaters at their widest? They also played March of the Penguins which I saw there.

Foreign/Art house movies will be a great addition to movieworld. They were playing Indian films on one of their screens during the weekends and pulling huge crowds of Indian families from Bellerose and Floral park. Whatever to keep the theater at afloat. Now if they can follow the path of the Kew Garden cinema’s footsteps in keeping a clean and modern theater.

Pictures at the re-opened theater are openers Wall-e on 2 screens and Wanted along with older films Get Smart (2nd week), Incredible Hulk (3rd week), Kung Fu Panda (4th week) and Sex in the City (5th week).

This cinema shoube label “open”. the Movieworld will reopen to 6/27/2008 with new sound and new seating in three of the 7 theaters .*The rest will be completed later on. The showtimes is publish in today'ss NY Post' s. Will check up and report on the condicion with the new management

I heard news that the theater will open again soon , by one of the partners of the Cinemaword chain of Corum and Mastic before they split up and became independant. . Please let them redo the complex with better seats, new carpet and maybe implode the # of theaters to 4 or 5